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January 31st, 2012

This adorable little critter is the newest addition to the Rosamond Gifford Zoo in New York. But it has a problem -the chick (whose gender remains unknown as of yet) still doesn't have a name. That's where you come i...

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Scott Bradlee and Alex MacDonald got together and decided to add a touch of class to the Super Mario World theme song.
"What's the best way to do this?" you ask nonchalantly, as you swish your cocktail...

As if combat isn't scary enough, imagine a future where bullets zip around, homing in on laser guided targets and doing a deadly dance in the air, curving and rolling until they hit home.
Well, this future battlef...

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We've shown videos of the Big Cat Rescue group before, but one thing left out of their usual videos are all the tiny cats and the non-cat species living on the organization's property.
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I have no idea how the gentleman in question managed to smuggle this Pokemon card into the rest of the deck what with the giant diamond ring attached to it and all, but however he did it, the proposal idea is certain...

Scientists have known what is contained in the Earth's core for about 75 years now, but that hasn't stopped sci-fi authors and artists from doing some wild speculation of their own.
These images by Japanese sci-fi...

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The centenarian in this video is here to tell you that you're never too old to be a hardcore gamer, and she stresses the fact that gaming can do wonders for your mental health as she happily plays her b...

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By Carl LaFong & the Spunk Holler Boys. From the YouTube page:
Not knowing the real lyrics to the song, Carl wrote his own and as a result debased a timeless traditional folk classic.
Warning: lis...

This mesmerizing structure is an arrangement on display at the 2012 Light Festival of Ghent, Belgium. The Italian firm Luminarie De Cagna carefully arranged its 55,000 LEDs. The apparent height of the ceiling is no c...

Union representatives and government inspectors are looking into complaints that managers at a Norwegian call center forbid employees from spending more than eight minutes a day on, uh, personal business:
Managers are...

I haven't done any actual research, but I think that we should jump to the conclusion that these Brahmaea certhia caterpillars are four feet long and, once having tasted human flesh, become insatiably ravenous for it...

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Say a word or a short phrase to Alyssa. She'll promptly say it backwards. How does she do it? There's no preparation or complex thinking involved. She just reverses the words like she's a machine design...

We've previously featured Spabettie's scrumptious-looking vegan s'more cocktails. The cups were made out of chocolate using Cool Shooters ice trays, so you can devour them with no clean up concerns.
Now Spabettie...

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This is just too downright cute not to share. All her life, actress Kristin Bell wanted to interact with a sloth. She got the opportunity on her birthday, and was overcome with emotion, as she...

From the look of the fossilized skull, you'd think this was a Smilodon, a sabertooth tiger. But no, this is Thylacosmilus, not a cat at all, but an ancient form of today's marsupials. Note the stran...

U.S. TV networks take shows from other countries and rework them to show to American audiences. In the same way, other countries do their own versions of American TV shows -but they often end up being quite different...

Comedy Central's Stephen Colbert is busy highlighting the absurdities of our political election system by participating in it. He is no longer a candidate for president, so he has retaken control of his legally-obtained...